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Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days

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Re: Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days

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Its wild that in the current year we are still allowing prehistoric puritan "ethics" to make decisions for us. I dont use twitch and never have but our societies sexual repression is so pervasive its shocking.

On one hand you are right. On the other I understand they don't want their website to turn into Chaturbate.

Re: Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days

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This issue would be much easier to solve if Twitch weren't owned by Amazon. Any platform is either porn or not porn. If you allow porn, if the porn is successful it'll drive everything else out. So either you have a platform that is not-porn, and bans porn, or it's porn and it's only got porn. The easy thing to do as a business would be to just have Twitch, and then have a sister company Twatch that allows porn. All the pornstars are happy - they have somewhere to go, the normies are happy - they aren't associated with porn. You could share the whole tech stack with the possible tweak of having separate credit card processing so that Visa/Mastercard don't shut off the porn. Hell, you could even have TwArtch for the arty people in the middle.

But the probably is... then Amazon is running a porn business and they'd be in loads of trouble.

Re: Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days

#6

This issue would be much easier to solve if Twitch weren't owned by Amazon. Any platform is either porn or not porn. If you allow porn, if the porn is successful it'll drive everything else out. So either you have a platform that is not-porn, and bans porn, or it's porn and it's only got porn. The easy thing to do as a business would be to just have Twitch, and then have a sister company Twatch that allows porn. All…

Reddit and Twitter (and old Tumblr) all have robust porn and non-porn content.

Re: Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days

#7

Its wild that in the current year we are still allowing prehistoric puritan "ethics" to make decisions for us. I dont use twitch and never have but our societies sexual repression is so pervasive its shocking.

Maybe the morals our societies have held for hundreds/thousands of years around moral decency and civility had a point. But I guess I'm glad you're wiser than all the generations that came before you, and you know better than all of them.

Re: Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days

#8

This issue would be much easier to solve if Twitch weren't owned by Amazon. Any platform is either porn or not porn. If you allow porn, if the porn is successful it'll drive everything else out. So either you have a platform that is not-porn, and bans porn, or it's porn and it's only got porn. The easy thing to do as a business would be to just have Twitch, and then have a sister company Twatch that allows porn. All…

Reddit and Twitter (and old Tumblr) all have robust porn and non-porn content.

I cant actually think of any website thats gone the way the parent describes. Most website that have both do fine having both and its always corporate puritan ethics that causes porn to become its own separate site.

Re: Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days

#9

Its wild that in the current year we are still allowing prehistoric puritan "ethics" to make decisions for us. I dont use twitch and never have but our societies sexual repression is so pervasive its shocking.

Maybe the morals our societies have held for hundreds/thousands of years around moral decency and civility had a point. But I guess I'm glad you're wiser than all the generations that came before you, and you know better than all of them.

A sort of Chesterton's fence of morality, if you will.

Re: Twitch Reverses Policy on 'Artistic Nudity' After Just Two Days

#10

Its wild that in the current year we are still allowing prehistoric puritan "ethics" to make decisions for us. I dont use twitch and never have but our societies sexual repression is so pervasive its shocking.

Maybe the morals our societies have held for hundreds/thousands of years around moral decency and civility had a point. But I guess I'm glad you're wiser than all the generations that came before you, and you know better than all of them.

This puritanism is neither so greatly long lived, nor globally distributed
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